M9 museum in Mestre celebrates its five-year anniversary with a new exhibition space

On the same day five years after its inauguration on December 1, 2018, in Mestre, M9 - Museo del ’900 intends to present itself renewed to follow the evolution of time and society. This is an important first milestone to look back at the Museum’s journey and project it into the future and its development that continues with the continuous integration of new angles, voices and perspectives to its narrative. In fact, the anniversary was an opportunity to present, together with local and national institutions, new projects in the museum offerings and educational area: the inauguration of M9 Horizons, a new exhibition space on the second floor, and the renewed space of M9Edu with the exhibition for schools The Adriatic Frontier.

M9 horizons, the new immersive exhibition space on the second floor (admission included with the permanent exhibition ticket and with the cumulative ticket), is a 400-square-meter room, equipped with an advanced projection system, that will complement the narrative of the permanent exhibition with an in-depth look at the major themes of the present. The first exhibit hosted is Infoxication. Blinded by Data, produced by Barcelona-based Domestic Data Streamers studio and remodeled specifically for M9. This multimedia experience addresses the theme of infoxication, orintoxication by excessive data and the impact that constant notifications of emails and messages to read produce on our attention span, the anxiety generated by the endless amounts of windows open simultaneously on our screens. The hall’s projection surfaces will therefore be filled with the immensity of digital information being created every second globally. The architectural and visitor experience design of M9 Horizons was curated by Studio Visuale with the collaboration of Salotto Buono. Studio Visuale, a digital communications agency specializing in graphic and multimedia design, also signed the immersive video Novecento. The best, the worst of the centuries. Also usable in M9 Horizons, it is a backward time travel inside the overwhelming process of economic and social expansion of the 20th century. Starting from the present condition, the video provides a key to framing as much the achievements and goals as the contradictions and limitations of the 20th century, the century to which M9 has dedicated its permanent collection. Reconnecting past and future, Italy and the World, the journey concludes with new global challenges, from energy transition to a new relationship with the environment. The creation of the M9 Horizons room, executed by Murer Cantieri Audiovisivi, was also made possible thanks to a contribution of 125 thousand euros from the Veneto Region. In fact, M9 District S.r.l. responded to the Veneto ERDF PR 2021-2027, dedicated to the consolidation of cultural, creative and audiovisual enterprises, by proposing a pioneering project, which came in second place out of more than three hundred applications, thanks to its coherence with the objectives of ecological and digital transition in the cultural sphere.

During the conference, the renovated space of M9Edu was also inaugurated with the temporary exhibition The Adriatic Frontier: laboratory of contemporaneity, produced in collaboration with the Working Group of the Ministry of Education and Merit - Associations of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles and the support of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Federation of Associations of Istrian Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles.

The exhibition, developed by a Scientific Committee selected by the Ministry and composed of professors Giovanni Cerchia, Gianni Oliva, Giuseppe Parlato, Raoul Pupo, Davide Rossi and Andrea Ungari, is dedicated to I and II grade secondary schools and deals with the history of the Adriatic Frontier by retracing the events that made the Julian-Dalmatian area one of the main theaters of Italian history during the 20th century, linked to that of neighboring peoples. Workshops and educational activities will be linked to the exhibition with the aim not only of facilitating knowledge of a long-forgotten history, but also of fostering paths of reconciliation between peoples in the perspective of common European citizenship.

The inauguration of the exhibition was the occasion for the signing of the Agreement between M9 and the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, aimed at promoting wide-ranging synergies ranging from the creation of a multimedia installation within the permanent exhibition to the development of educational paths and awareness-raising events on the topic of the eastern border.

In addition to the conference, initiatives on the occasion of the fifth birthday of M9 - Museo del ’900 will continue over the weekend: on Saturday and Sunday, in fact, the museum will offer the public guided tours of the permanent and temporary exhibitions and screenings of two films: Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine ’s Homo Urbanus Venetianus (Saturday at 6 p.m., directors present), Giovanni Pellegrini’s Lagunaria (Sunday at 6 p.m., together with the director), part of the AcquaGranda public program, promoted by DVRI and M9, in collaboration with CinemAmbiente and GinkoFilm.

Statements

“We wanted to present these two projects on the fifth anniversary of the opening of M9 because of their significance in the Museum’s growth path,” said Michele Bugliesi, President of the Venice Foundation. “With the new exhibition space M9 Horizons, and the new content of M9Edu, the evolution of M9’s narrative is further consolidated, which is increasingly qualified by its ability to intercept issues relevant to the present and to new generations,” he added. “My greetings and heartfelt thanks to Luca Molinari for all the valuable work he has done, a child of the competence and passion he has always shown over the past three years.”

“Today’s appointment marks the landing to a new season for the Museum, which opens to new horizons of storytelling: M9 Horizons will be the space to tell what is happening today, to meet emerging sensitivities on the challenges and urgencies of our time,” commented Luca Molinari, Scientific Director of M9 - Museo del ’900. “From the first day I arrived, we have worked along a double track of development, acting inside the Museum, with the renewal of the permanent exhibition and the organization of temporary exhibitions, and outside it, creating new synergies and collaborations with local and national subjects: I like to think I am leaving an authoritative Museum, welcoming to the territory and its communities, which will be able to find in M9 an open house, solid in its foundations and, at the same time, to continue to build and inhabit together.”

“M9 - Museum of the 1900s is the natural context in which to set an experiential and cognitive journey related to the theme of the Adriatic Frontier and allows for contextualization in a broad framework, what happened,” said Caterina Spezzano, Technical Director, Education and Training Department of the Ministry of Education and Merit. “Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, lands of borders and encounters between different peoples and cultures, were the subject of dramatic events affecting the history of Italy. The Exhibition offers the opportunity to bring alive the memory of the Italians who experienced the Exodus, extirpation from their native soil and diaspora in various territories through the memories and emotions connected with them and at the same time provides the tools to read the complexity of a Frontier whose history is paradigmatic of so many other troubled histories of Europe.”

“I express the deepest satisfaction that the drama of the eastern border, and of the Istrian Fiuman and Dalmatian people, is becoming the historical heritage of the entire Italian nation,” said Renzo Codarin, president of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia (ANVGD). “The use of a new and modern system of dissemination and knowledge represented by M9 - Museo del ’900 is a very important achievement.”

“I believe that M9 with these initiatives is increasingly a true laboratory of contemporaneity., as we see not only in the very interesting Frontiera Adriatica project, whose value does not escape, but in all the new proposals of this Museum capable of declining in a modern key its ancient vocation, to be the home of the Muses, our contemporary Muses, daughters of Memory but protagonists of the present and builders of tomorrow, the place where a cultural project with strong educational and dissemination value is developed, a space for study and research, an avant-garde structure, capable of being an open door to the territory and its contemporary history, contradictions and limitations included, a starting point for visiting that diffuse museum that characterizes the polycentrism of the Veneto and that speaks not only of the past as much as, with its enterprises, its universities and its institutions, tells of that present that every day becomes the future,” said Roberto Ciambetti, president of the Veneto Regional Council.

“The M9 is the custodian of contemporaneity, of the history of the twentieth century not only of Mestre, but of our country,” concluded Giorgia Pea, Councilwoman in charge of Culture: theater activities and cinema. “Over the course of these five years, which we are celebrating today with the presentation of the new spaces and exhibition, the museum has been able to propose an innovative format that has multimedia culture and technology as the pillars of a path that looks at the actuality of our society looking to the future, with special attention to the new generations. A vision that guides the action of the municipal administration, aimed at increasing the strategic scenario of the places of culture with the development of the cultural, artistic and creative district in the heart of Mestre to broaden the offer aimed at the citizens of the entire metropolitan area.”

M9 museum in Mestre celebrates its five-year anniversary with a new exhibition space

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